Full Description
Now in its third edition, this award-winning text work is the only advanced practice nursing text to present effective, systematic, and in-depth evaluations of all aspects of health care quality. Comprehensive in scope, it distills best practice information from numerous sources to facilitate utmost competency for APN and DNP graduates. The third edition keeps pace with the rapidly evolving healthcare market by presenting a more comprehensive range of evaluation strategies for analyzing quality, safety, and value in healthcare practice and programs. It provides a completely new chapter on evaluation of simulation programs to improve clinician competency and patient care technology.
An increased focus on the application of quality improvement is woven throughout, including the quality improvement-research continuum and an emphasis on interdisciplinary collaboration and teamwork. New case studies, specific examples from a variety of QI projects, and content specifically geared to improve teamwork also add to the book's outstanding value. The text also delves into the theoretical basis of evaluation and its application as an integral part of contemporary practice. It includes evaluation models that enable nurses to address economic and financial viability, and guides readers through the translation of outcomes from evaluation into health care policy. Additionally, the text now includes PowerPoints for instructors.
New to the Third Edition:
New chapter: Evaluation of Simulation to Support Ongoing Competency in the HC Workforce
Additional case studies and specific examples from QI projects
Increased focus on teamwork and collaboration
Enhanced discussion of theoretical foundations of evaluation approaches
New focus on program evaluation and dissemination of findings
New PowerPoints available for Instructors!
Key Features:
Addresses AACN competencies and scope of practice
Helps students integrate best and evidence-based practices into care
Provides guidance on practical methods and tools for Quality Improvement Project
Presents evaluation models enabling nurses to address economic and financial viability
Includes evaluations of organizations, systems, standards for practice, health care redesign, and the challenges of electronic medical records
Contents
Section I: FOUNDATIONS OF EVALUATION
Chapter 1. Evaluation and Advanced Nursing Practice: The Mandate for Evaluation
Joanne V. Hickey
Chapter 2. The Nature of Evidence as a Basis for Evaluation
Joanne V. Hickey
Chapter 3. Models for Evaluation in Advanced Nursing Practice
Joanne V. Hickey
Chapter 4. Evaluation and Outcomes
Eileen G. Giardino
Chapter 5. Financial Evaluation
Eileen R. Giardino and Angelo P. Giardino
Section II: EVALUATION OF HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONAL IMPERATIVES
Chapter 6. Evaluation of Organizations and Systems
Nancy Manning Crider and Beth Ulrich
Chapter 7. Evaluation of Health Care Information Systems and Patient Care Technology
Juliana J. Brixey and V. Gail Roberson Turner
Chapter 8. Planning a Program or Project Evaluation
Joanne V. Hickey
Chapter 9. Evaluation in Quality Improvement
Eileen R. Giardino
Chapter 10. Evaluation of Patient Care Standards, Guidelines, and Protocols
Ronda G. Hughes
Chapter 11. Evaluation of Interprofessional Health Care Teams
Joanne V. Hickey
Chapter 12. Evaluation of Simulation to Support Ongoing Competency of the Health Care Workforce
Kristen Starnes-Ott and M. Roseann Diehl
SECTION III: EVALUATION OF POPULATIONS AND HEALTH POLICY
Chapter 13. Evaluation of Populations and Population Health
Joanne V. Hickey
Chapter 14. Evaluation of Health Policy: From Problem to Practice
Joyce Batcheller, Peggy L. Landrum, Nancy Manning Crider, and Patricia S. Yoder-Wise
Chapter 15. Drivers of Change, Impact, and Challenges for Evaluation of Health Care
Joanne V. Hickey and Eileen R. Giardino
